> I have seen the friction show up when the company is too small to have any staff dedicated to working architecture and engineering facing engineering systems, but big enough that their past choices are creating friction.
It's funny you say that. My career hasn't been as wide and varied as many. My roles have been across wildly different industries, but I only have one person's life to live and my average tenure has been around 5 years. I've had a lot of time to reflect on these sorts of issues in depth, but not to see how they apply across as many situations.
That _exactly_ describes the organizations I had in mind when I was writing that. I have no extra useful insight to add or anything, just that you've definitely given me something to chew on there.
